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What do readers say about My Year of Rest and Relaxation?
contemporary literary fiction weird and misanthropic inventive and subtle mushy for nihilistic filthNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
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WHENEVER I WOKE UP, night or day, I’d shuffle through the bright marble foyer of my building and go up the block and around the corner where there was a bodega that never closed. I’d get two large cof...
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What do readers say about Death in Her Hands?
a very strange novel haunting metaphysical suspense creepy and disgusting eileen several decades laterNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more
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But there was no body. No bloodstain. No tangle of hair caught on the coarse fallen branches, no red wool scarf damp with morning dew festooned across the bushes. There was just the note on the ground...
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What do readers say about Lapvona?
far fetched rubbish flows so eloquently confinement for immaculate conception poor quality use of languageAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!
" Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, gra... More details on Lapvona
The bandits came again on Easter. This time they slaughtered two men, three women, and two small children. Some smelting tools were stolen from the blacksmith, but no gold or silver, as there was none...
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What do readers say about Homesick for Another World?
a brilliantly creepy collection dark, confident, prickling collection of stories dark and edgy storiesA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time
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My classroom was on the first floor, next to the nuns’ lounge. I used their bathroom to puke in the mornings. One nun always dusted the toilet seat with talcum powder. Another nun plugged the sink and...
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What do readers say about Boy Parts?
darkly comic novel no concrete resolution a genius first novel brilliantly written, annoyingly good'Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power.'
- Jessica Andrews
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the street... More details on Boy Parts
When the bus pulls over, I wobble on my heels. I imagine going over on my ankle, the bone snapping and breaking the skin. I imagine taking a photo in A&E and sending it to Ryan; yikes, guess I can’t c...
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What do readers say about The New Me?
self-absorbed internal monologues deadpan existential kafkaesque quick, snarky millennial existentialism I loved the ending"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
"Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me." -Entertainment Weekly
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In the windowless back offices of a designer furniture showroom, women stand in a circle, stuffed into ill-fitting black jeans, gray jeans, olive jeans, the ass cloth sagging one inch, two, below wher...
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What do readers say about Animal?
definitely something different another depraved woman narrative story was interesting strange writing styleFrom Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an "intoxicating" (Entertainment Weekly), "fearless" (Los Angeles Times), and "explosive" (People) novel about "what happens when women are pushed b... More details on Animal
I DROVE MYSELF OUT OF New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That’s a cruel thing to think, I kno...
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What do readers say about A Certain Hunger?
compelling and addictive poetic and highly descriptive an impossible mixture beautifully crafted novelOne of Vanity Fair 's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter
"One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory... A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy Raymond Chandler ... More details on A Certain Hunger
They all look the same, hotel bars, even when they don’t. The oak and the glass, the palms and the bottles, the lighting that casts that singular glow, wrapping you in its warmth and pin-spotting your...
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What do readers say about Luster?
humor and brutal honesty messy, sharp, and raw gritty, raw novel brutal but beautifulA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian, L... More details on Luster
The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light. He is uptown processing a new bundle of microfiche and I am downtown handling c...
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What do readers say about Nightbitch?
lyrical, evocative, visceral meditations on motherhood optimistic and tender stream of consciousness styleNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY VULTURE AND ESQUIRE
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY DEBUT NOVEL AWARD
"A bold book, funny and bizarre and without comparison."-Elle
In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becom... More details on Nightbitch
And only now in her remembering did the events of the recent weeks begin to make sense. For of course she had known about it since she was a child, growing up as she had within the old German ways, wi...
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